CoinsPersian4th century BCE
Persian siglos
400 - 300 BCE
Description
Obv.: Archer with bow and dagger running to r.; two small countermarks. Rev.: incuse punch
Dimensions
5.39g
Provenance
Jane Ayer Scott, Newton MA (by 2008), by inheritance; to her husband Wellington F. Scott III, (2008-2010), gift; to The Harvard Art Museums, 2010. There is no further information available about where Jane Scott purchased the coin. Persian sigloi were minted mainly in Sardis (modern Turkey) and circulated all over ancient Asia Minor from Turkey, to Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and furrther.
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